Clothes-drier for laundries.



Patented June 23, 1903.

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PATENT JOHN E. MANNEN AND WILLIS M. ESTERLY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

CLOTHES-DRIER FOR LAUNDRIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0u 731,481, dated June 23, 1903. Application filed February 3, 1903. Serial No. 141,644. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN E. MANNEN and WILLIs M. ESTERLY, citizens of the United States, residing at. Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Driers for Laundries; and we do declare that .00 w, Fig. 4. Fig.3 is a sectional elevation on line w :12, Fig. 2; and Fig, 4 is a plan view on line 1 'y, Fig. 2.

This invention is an improvement on the invention in our application filed September 16, 1902, Serial No. 123,666; and the invention comprises, first, a novel construction of airheater or stove A, whereby the heat generated therein is rendered available in the drier to the utmost degree practicable, and a specially advantageous arrangement of pipes and flues is obtained to communicate the heat to the drier. Thus the drier chamber or iuclosure B is divided into what may be referred to as upper and lower compartments 1) and b by a perforated horizontal division 2, which in this instance is wire webbing or mesh, but may be of any other open-work material or construction, and is especially adapted to catch any clothes that may accidentally fall from the racks and prevent their falling on the fines or floor beneath.

The heater A has an oven at or hot-air space, relatively as shown, and which is open at its sides and rear by open channels m for the free escape of heated air therefrom into compartment b. Fresh air is supplied to the said oven by a pipe or channel D, leading from the outside, preferably, and entering the oven from its bottom and front. Then in order to economize the heat and at the same time to get other advantages in operation we provide the stove with draft-flues E of substantially 'V shape in side elevation, Fig. 2, but preferthe drier-chamber, relatively as shown or in.

an equivalent manner, a very large surfaceexposure for the outgoing heat or products of combustion from the stove is afforded, and the excess of the passing heat is radiated and given ofi to the air in the drier-chamber. Then, again, by these means we keep a perfectly clean flue, because both angles thereof are at such inclination as to be self-cleansing, and' whatever soot or ashes may reach this point will be carried forward into the base of the stove or heater, where provision is made for their removal in the usual way. Then, again, by having the long line of travel of the heat to the rearward it brings thepoint of delivery well toward the center of-the drier-chamber bottom, from which advantageous distribution of the heat is obtained and which, with the contributingflues, provides for the best possible effect in heat economy and distribution. Then asa further means of absorbing the heat before it escapes into the smoke-stack or chimney we provide a drum G, which iucloses the upright portion of smoke-pipe F and has an air intake or pipe J extending from the bottom of the drier-chamber and an outlet 6 at its top into the top of the drier-chamber. In this way we provide for drawing off whatever cool air there may be at the bottom of drier-chamber 13 and further heating the same and after heating it discharge the said air into the top of the drier-chamber. Then circulation is further promoted, and moist air that may settle in the drier-chamber b is drawn off by the tines K, which discharge into the space 8 over chamber B and pass thence to the smokestack by flue L.

The clothes-racks R may be of any suitable ICO style or kind, and We do not lay any claim to this part of the construction at this time.

We might of course take the fresh air from Within the building or from any other source of supply; but preferably for cleanliness we take it from without through pipe D.

It will be seen and understood that oven at is open at its rear to the drying-chamber through the space between the inclines of flues E, so that the heated air discharges freely into said chamber from the oven about fines E. If these fines were equivalently shaped so as to extend back into the drier relatively as here shown and connected with the top of the heater, they would of course be Within the invention.

What we claim is- 1. A drier-chamber, in combination with a heater therefor having divided draft-lines of substantially V shape in elevation and projecting into said chamber, substantially as set forth.

2. The'heater for the drier having an oven and an air-inlet thereto and a set of substantially V-shaped tlues at its rear comm unicating with the top and the bottom, respectively, of the heater, and a drier-chamber into which said flues extend, substantially as set forth.

3. The drier-chamber and the heater having an oven with an air-inlet thereto, and reversely-inclined draft-fines connected with the top and the bottom of the heater above and below said oven, and the space between the said inclined flues open to said oven and to said drier, substantially as set forth.

I 4. In clothes-driers, a'drier-chamber, in combination with a heater having draft-fines at its rear projecting at an inclination rearward and downward into said drier and running from the top to the bottom of the heater, an exhaust-flue from the bottom of the heater into which said fines discharge, and an oven in the heater in open communication with the said drier and having an inlet for fresh air, substantially as set forth.

5. In a clothes-drier,a chamber and clothesracks therein, a heater at one side and at the bottom of said chamber, an air-outlet for said chamber, and a draft-flue at each end on the opposite side of said chamber opening to said outlet and with an inlet at substantially the bottom line of said racks, substantially as described.

Witness onr hands to the foregoing specification this 15th day of January, 1903.

JOHN E. MANNEN. WILLIS M. ESTERLY. Witnesses:

R. B. MOSER, H. T. FISHER. 

